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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, Carrie, … to childhood friend, Carrie Miner Sherwood [April 29, 1945] Visitors to Red Cloud are invited to book a stay at the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

The Passing Show: What Makes a House a Home

… Place which is on display in our Red Cloud Opera House Gallery through August 1. Nathan Tye Professor of History …
Posted: 05/19/2025
Last Updated: 05/28/2025

From Our Collection: Andrews Opera Co.

… Image From Our Collection: Andrews Opera Co. August 1, 2014 One can't overstate the importance of the Red Cloud Opera House to a young Willa Cather. In a 1929 letter to friend … house was dark for most of the year, but that made its events only the more exciting." Currently on view now in the …
Posted: 09/09/2014
Last Updated: 09/11/2014

Serena's Album

… motto is from Pope’s “Essay on Man,” a line well-loved by newspaper writers. Mrs. Keifer’s father-in-law, J. W. … Superior girls; in late December 1888, according to local news accounts, she and Willa Cather and Loua Bellows visited …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Support

… museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 03/31/2026

Scott Kirby's Main Street Souvenirs

… please contact our Visitor Services Coordinator, Nick Powers, at npowers@willacather.org . Advance notice is necessary to …
Posted: 12/10/2025
Last Updated: 03/23/2026

Visions of the Prairie

… Boulder, Colorado. His appearances include a segment on CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood and the Smithsonian …
Posted: 01/13/2026
Last Updated: 03/18/2026

Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… please contact our Visitor Services Coordinator, Nick Powers, at npowers@willacather.org . Advance notice is necessary to …
Posted: 01/28/2026
Last Updated: 02/10/2026

Group and Motorcoach Tours

… lunch served in our beautiful Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery — or a picnic on the prairie! Exclusives for Bus … Explore stunning work of regional artists with the current gallery exhibit and tour the Red Cloud Opera House, where …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

Annotations from the Archive: Back to School

… summer seems endless, but it is then that children are jarred from summer reveries and returned to school. In … underscored.  “Dogs” The dog is a very intelligent animal. Some of them are very valuable & expensive, the Pug is … Westminster, so dear to the heart of every Englishman, were things of no moment to Carlyle. He was a recluse, not that …
Posted: 08/16/2021
Last Updated: 08/14/2025

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